Don Hauser

Don Hauser was the soccer coach at Verbum Dei high school. In 1999, he was arrested for statutory rape.

Biography
Don Hauser was well-known as a successful, star soccer coach at Verbum Dei high school, a private Catholic school. The fathers of the girls on his soccer team loved him for the success that he brought them on the playing field, and he once had drinks with Mafia members Tony Soprano and Silvio Dante and restaurant owner Artie Bucco at the Bada Bing strip club, refusing Dante's offer to go into the VIP room with a stripper-prostitute. In 1999, when he announced that he was moving to the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Soprano and the mobsters attempted to pressure him into staying; Hauser refused to accept a stolen television set from Soprano's associate Paulie Gualtieri as a gift, saying that he had friends in law enforcement, and that he knew what extortion was. Christopher Moltisanti later stole his golden retriever and delivered the "lost" dog to Hauser's house in an attempt to win his favor. It was later revealed that his soccer player Ally Vandermeed had attempted to kill herself after Hauser, her lover, refused to leave his wife for her after accepting his new job in Rhode Island. Soprano was told about this by his daughter, Ally's teammate Meadow, and he originally wanted to kill Hauser, but Bucco talked him out of being a vigilante. The coach was ultimately arrested by authorities for the statutory rape of Vandermeed.